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SOUTHERN CO-OPERATION TICKET.The Proceedings of the Convention to be submitted to the People.FOR DELEGATES.H. H. Edwards,Wm. Clark, Jr.,J. N. Fall,J. W. Guinn.C. W. RAMSDELL.BOOK REVIEWS.The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches. A survey of theEwings and their kin in America. By Presley KittredgeEwing and Mary Ellen (Williams) Ewing. 1919. Pp. XIV,185, XLV.This is the title of a book of more than ordinary interest. Thecompilers became residents of Houston in 1882, soon after theirmarriage, and almost immediately began to fill important placesin the community. The passing of Mrs. Ewing on April 1, 1919,was a loss, not only to her family and near friends, but to manybranches of useful, beneficent work in which she was engaged.The beautiful "In Memoriam" which adorns the first pages ofthe book is touchingly pathetic in its tribute to one who wasdistinguished by her helpfulness in every phase of her life.The book comprises 180 pages, exclusive of illustrations andindex. The coats of arms of the Ewings and Kittredge families,and that of Williams, are appropriately placed with their re-spective records, and these, together with pictures of twenty-fourmembers of families, and two homesteads, complete a set of illus-trations reflecting the general excellence of the volume.The Ewing family traces its descent from Scotch Irish an-cestors, who lived near Stirling Castle, Scotland, and Coleraine,Ireland, through the first emigrant who came to America in theearly part of the eighteenth century, down to the present genera-tion. Mrs. Ewing's genealogy, as shown in the family trees ofWilliams, Field, and Mills, illustriously woven into the historyof England, and transplanted into the colonies of America, con-tributed liberally to the upbuilding of the nation.A. B. LOOSCAN.